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German author (born 1945)

Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg (born 27 January 1945) is a German author. She is the daughter of World War IIcolonel and resistance leaderClaus von Stauffenberg.

Early life

Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg, born Konstanze Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg on 27 January 1945, is the youngest child of Operation Valkyrie leader Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), a member of the traditional German nobility, and his wife, Baroness"Nina" von Lerchenfeld (1913–2006).

She was born in a Nazi maternity center in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, where her mother had been transferred for childbirth from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Countess Nina, who was pregnant with her fifth child at the time of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power on 20 July 1944, for which her father was summarily executed, had been arrested and imprisoned in the aftermath of the assassi